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Cover image of Daddy Love written by Joyce Carol Oates

Daddy Love le Joyce Carol Oates

Robbie Whitcomb is the beloved five-year-old son of Dinah and Whit, and when he is literally ripped from his mother’s hand by a stranger in the car park of a huge shopping mall, it is the start of a long nightmare. Daddy Love believes he has rescued the boy from a neglectful mother, but then Daddy Love comes up with a million excuses for his unspeakable cruelty. As Robbie, or Gideon as he has been renamed, grows up, he becomes aware that he is not the first boy Daddy Love has taken. Meanwhile, his parents languish in a brutal netherworld, balanced precariously between desperate grief and determination to find their son. While the redemption in ‘Room’ came from a young boy whose abducted mother was determined to protect him, ‘Daddy Love’ is all the more chilling because Gideon’s only experience of love comes from the man who is also brutally abusing him. There is very little redemption here; it is a truly bleak read.


Cover image of The Things We Know Now written by Catherine Dunne

The Things We Know Now le Catherine Dunne

Patrick and Ella Grant lead a charmed existence. Patrick fell apart after his first wife died suddenly, but after meeting Ella he has managed to get back on track. If Patrick’s grown up daughters are not unanimously ecstatic at his newfound happiness, he resolves to bear with it. An unexpected pregnancy cements the couple’s happiness, and son Daniel grows up in a household where he is adored. At 14, Daniel is an accomplished artist and musician, and seems mature beyond his years. When the worst imaginable thing happens, the family is utterly devastated. A compassionate writer at the best of times, Dunne handles the issue of teenage suicide in a calm and considered way, while never underplaying the calamitous effect on the people left to grieve. In perhaps the novel’s only shortcoming, she goes a long way towards explaining the ‘why’ in this particular case, but for many grieving relatives this is the one question they never manage to answer. A moving and not always easy read, this is an excellent novel that deserves a wide audience.


Cover image of The Carrier written by Sophie Hannah

The Carrier le Sophie Hannah

Sophie Hannah is very adept at fashioning psychological thrillers that keep the reader guessing till the end, and ‘The Carrier’ is no exception. Tim Breary has confessed to killing his incapacitated wife, but he insists that he has no motive for her murder. Meanwhile, the only woman he has ever loved is having a very strange encounter with a woman employed to care for Tim’s dead wife. Through a series of letters written to the dead woman, the reader soon becomes aware that Francine Breary was a thoroughly nasty piece of work, and would have driven many people to murder. The investigating police team, comprising complex characters introduced by Hannah in previous books, is at a bit of a loss when it comes to figuring out what really happened. This is a very clever book, and one which gives the reader plenty of food for thought. Hannah is an astute student of human behaviour.


Bedsit Disco Queen: How I Grew Up and Tried to be a Pop Star written by Tracey Thorn

Bedsit Disco Queen: How I Grew Up and Tried to be a Pop Star ble Tracey Thorn

Tracey Thorn has turned her not inconsiderable song-writing talents into a thoroughly entertaining and riveting focus on her life in music. Like many teenagers, Thorn was hooked on music at an early age, although she admits to being a later starter than many of her peers. In an era when it seemed that anyone who could hold a guitar was setting up a band, she and a few friends joined forces as The Marine Girls. But it was the years with Everything But the Girl, started with her then partner and now husband Ben Watt, that made Thorn’s name in the music business. The group enjoyed much success on the domestic and international scene, and probably stunned onlookers by quitting at the pinnacle of their careers. Babies and children took over for a while, and Watt pursued DJing and his own record label business, while Thorn occasionally dipped a toe back in the water. Her writing voice is much like that of her singing – witty, entrancing and just unique enough to leave you wanting more. A great read.


 

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